The Republican journal., 1887-08-11
Generalities.


is dead at Salt Lake City.
The Crown Prince of Germany is progress
ing rapidly toward complete recovery.
The arms manufacturers of Suhl have receive
ed orders for 800 900 side arms for the Turkish
army.
The last voyage of the French steamer Cham
pagnc from llayrc to New York was the quick
est on record.
A company with SlO,OO0,000 capital has been
organized in st. Paul to build new railroad to
Lake Superior.
The word dollar dates to 1875, when Con-
gress voted it should be the unit Of money in
the United States.
san Francisco spectators are gloomy in view
of the depression in the Comstock shares and
the wheat market.
Statistics show that the total value of the
mineral products of the nation have increased
enormously since 1881
The manufacture of school states, the first
OF the kind in the United States. was establish
ed in 1926 in Pennsylvania.
Elijah Youngbood a farmer of Coffee eoun-
ty. Va. has killed 99G deer. 24O wildcats and 81
panther> between his crops.
The old Harriet Beccher Stowe house in An
uCNtI. MISS, III WIllCfi l Hclt lOll I iDlll was
written. was burned recently.
\ trumpet has been invented for telephonng
at sea, by which conversations are said to be
carried on miles apart with no wire.
The people of the United States cat about
100000 cans of French SardineS every year, and
about G.00o,0oO cans Of Maine herring.
President K z. Clement of the Leayenworth,
Kansas, savings bank. has absconded to Cana
da with 100000 of the funds of the bank.
In arranging his Western trip Mr.. Cleveland
has been careful to have his route cross Indiana
twice. Indiana is Il doubtful State you know.
Consul General Phelal, at Halifax, is taking
measures to ascertain the exact points ut which
the American fishermen were seized few days
ago.
a careful inquiry deveopes the fact that the
new version Of the bible is 4 dead failure both
Is a financial venture and Is a religious stand
ard.
IIanlan has accepted Teemcr'S challenge to
row Il three mile race for $1,000 side. The
race is to be rowcd on Toronto Bay August II
or Is.
Mrs. smith. the niece of Mrs. \. L. Stewart.
W no is irving to break her will. demands the
removal of Judge Hilton and two fellow exec
utors.
The Maryland Democrats have nominated +.
jackson for governor, Louis Baughman, for
comptroller and Hon. W. =. White for attorney
general
The cause of sickness at "A Connecticut hotel
has been shown to he the flow of sewage into
the well which supplied the house with drink
ing water.
The new 81 silver certificates. with Hancock
vignette. are being raised and circulated as so
certificates in Chicago by two Suspiciou>-look-
ing women
The Prince of Wales. though he has an income
of 81 ,00O, 900. was wel-niyh bankruptcd by his
jubilee expenses, and is a frequent borrower
OH the street.
The German Government has completed the
strengthening of the forts around Cologne.
The entire infantry vii! be armed with repeat
ing rifles by oct |.
Great depression in the cattle business is re-
ported in Texas. Several firms have failed for
il large amount and the Henrietta national bank
has closed its doors.
The Dominion authorities have aloptcd quar-
antinc regulations. forhiddng the importation
of American cattle into Manitoba except for
breeding purposes
Gen. Corriahan. Chairman of the Central
Republican Committee of Indiana. says that
his uarty has Il better prospect of carrying that
state than it had in 1854.
Emperor Willi;tm. the Queen of Spain, Prince
Bismarck. and ScEor CanovaS del Castillo have
received the Pope'S gold medals in memory of
the Caroline Islands arbitration
1t is reported that the Missouri Pacific Rail
way Company has been >winlicd out of one
million dollars in the purchase of ties Jay
Gould says the los will not be so great.
The Clnarl Steamship Company asks that
its liability tor loss or injury incurred by the
sinking of the Oregon be restricted TO the value
of the 10 boats and life rafts. which wcr" alone
saved.
Various British and scottish associations in
New York are taking steps to induce British
subjects eligible To naturalization to take out
papers an'l become citizens of the United
States
The family of he late Josiah LaSel, :, prom
inent manufacturer of Whitinsvillc, Mass.
have given $50. 900 to Williams College to make
up the expenses to the corporation for the new
gymnasium.
The steamer Mohiran attended the Thistle to
PIah,la island. Eng. on her way out. The
Thistle was then going nine knots an hour un-
der storm sails. Captain Barr expects to make
the passage across in % days.
1t is stated rs an interesting fact that Mr..
Robert Bonner, publisher of the New York
Ledger. had, unknown to Mr.. Cobb. carried Il
so, 900 Insurance on .he life of the late SYLVIA
nus Cobb. Jr., for the benefit of his family.
The directors of the exposition at Minneapo-
lis, Mimi. are considering the a,ivi>ability of
invitn" cN-premicr Gladstone to open the cN-
position this year by pressing an electric button
in London. is Mrs. Cleveland did in Washing
ton last Year
j. }. Curran, Il we'll known Chicago politician,
has sued Congressman Frank Lawler to re-
cover 500 which he paid TO l.awer in 1SS) to
cover his expenses in going to Washington to
secure for Curran the place Of collector of Gus
toms at Chicago.
The Interstate tommiSs ion has dismissed the
complaints made against the Fitchburg Road
by citizen of schenectady, y. ", and also the
demand of the Burton Stock Car Company,
asking that the railways be compelled to pay
the ear company mileage.
a meeting of the National committee Of the
Prohibition party will be held in Chicago Nov
cmber 1G, 1857, to fix the time and place of the
National nominating convention Of lSSS. A gem
eral conference of Prohibitonists will be held
in Chicago on the following day.
The Columbian government has granted to
the Central and South American Telegraph
Company authority to establish and operate a
telegraph line across the I~thm,ls of Panama
and to extend its cables from Colon along the
Atlantic coast of South America.
Articles for prize fight between Jake Kill
rain of America. and Jim Smith of England,
were signed last week in the office of the Sport
ing Life, at London. The encounter will take
place in Spain on the third of January next
within one hundred miles of Madrid.
Edward Ilcslcr, farmer Of Thomaston.
Mass, has two daughters II and Il years old.
They each have twelve fingers and twelve toes
The older weighs 2i1 pounds, the other 2l9
pounds; the elder is IS inches bust and 5l waist
measurement, the other is 60 and as.
At the convention of the International Assoc
citation of fairs and eXpostiors, at Toronto, Il
resolution was passed that Il worlds fair should
be held in 1892, and Chicago rs the most suit
able place. The next convention will take
place in Chicago in November lSSs.
The secretary of the interior has dismissed
the pension application of VIM. lledgspeth of
ed in the rebel army to escape starvation i'll the
rebel prison. He deserted at the first oppor-
tunity and rejoined his old regiment.
1t is estimated that there will be Il gain in
the valuation of Boston this year of more than
80, ,0OO. .00O There will also be large gain In
the tax levy, which will not be offset by the i'll
crease in valuation. The rate for 1SS. is eN-
pected to he about Sl4 on thousand.
One of the latest decisions of the Interstate
commerce commission is that railroads may not
sell commercial travellers mileage tickets at
lower rates than to other people. The other
people will consider this an equitable decision,
whatever the drnmmers think about it,